I'm at a conference on "Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge: Production in the Digital Age," at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. There are about 40 of us in a second-floor open conference room, and include some really awesome people. Given my interest in DIY science, the relationship between craft knowledge and formal knowledge, and the history of scientific practice, this should be a really interesting couple days, and one that can feed into several of the different projects I've got going on.
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About Me
I write about people, technology, and the worlds they make.
I'm a senior consultant at Strategic Business Insights, a Menlo Park, CA consulting and research firm. I also have two academic appointments: I'm a visitor at the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford University, and an Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Saïd Business School. (I also have profiles on Linked In, Google Scholar and Academia.edu.)
I began thinking seriously about contemplative computing in the winter of 2011 while a Visiting Researcher in the Socio-Digital Systems Group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. I wanted to figure out how to design information technologies and user experiences that promote concentration and deep focused thinking, rather than distract you, fracture your attention, and make you feel dumb. You can read about it on my Contemplative Computing Blog.
My book on contemplative computing, The Distraction Addiction, will be published by Little, Brown and Company in 2013. (It will also appear in Dutch and Russian.)
My books
My latest book, and the first book from the contemplative computing project. The Distraction Addiction will appear in summer 2013, published by Little, Brown and Co.. (You can pre-order it through Amazon or IndieBound now, though!)
My first book, Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions, was published with Stanford University Press in 2002 (order via Amazon).
Recent publications
IN PROGRESS
IN PRESS
PUBLISHED IN 2012
PUBLISHED IN 2011
A Banquet of Consequences: Living in the “Nobody-Could-Have-Predicted” Era.
Using Futures 2.0 to Manage Intractable Futures: The Case of Weight Loss
Thinking Big: Large Media, Creativity, and Collaboration [pdf]
Citizen Satellites (with Bob Twiggs)
PUBLISHED IN 2010
Feasting at the Banquet of Consequence
Futures 2.0: Rethinking the Discipline
Paper Spaces: Visualizing the Future
Social Scanning: Improving Futures Through Web 2.0
Global Scenarios: Their Current State and Future
PUBLISHED IN 2009
Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next 20 Years of Technology-Led Economic Development
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Cafe Barrone, 2004
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